Materials for a Flora of ike Malayan Peninsula. 167 



18. S. rAi;vu:M, Eidl. Stem shortly an inch long with long grey 

 roots. Leaves lanceolate rather thin acute, 14 inch long nearly ^ inch 

 across. Kacenie very short l inch long, few flowered. Bracts small 

 ovate remote. Flowers ^ inch long fleshy. Upper sepal lanceolate, 

 laterals larger ovate. Petals lorate as long. Lip side lobes quadrate, 

 median widely ovate, spur oblong saccate thick, callus lorate bifid. 

 Anther ovate. Rostellum linear. Cleisostoma parvuin, Ridl. Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. XXXII. 366. 



Pahang: Kota Glanggi (Ridley). 



19. S. UTf:GirERUM, Eidl. Stemless leaves lorate apex broad 

 rounded or refuse margins undulate, 7 inches long by one inch wide. 

 Spike shorter than the leaves densely flowered peduncle stout, 3 inches 

 long. Bracts minute. Flowers I inch across. Sepals obovate ob- 

 long yellow dull red at base. Petals similar, smaller. Lip side lobes 

 truncate, midlobe very small fleshy, spur a large inflated subglobose 

 sac contracted above, callus semicircular convex entire. C^olumn very 

 short. Anther broad. Pollinia globose, caudicle broad, gland oblong. 

 Cleisostoma uteriferum. Hook. fll. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 74. Ann. Roy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. V. 56. PL 84. 



Perak (Kunstler). 



§ 5. Sarcanthus. 



20. S. ScoRTEcniNii, Ridl. A tall plant climbing with the 

 habit of a Renanthcra about six feet tall -| inch through. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate subacute or obtuse 5 inches long one inch wide petiolate sheaths 

 an inch long. Raceme stout deflexed eventually 15 inches long. 

 Flowers numerous opening few at a time, ovary terete grooved nearly 

 sessile, ^s i^^*-'^^ long. Flowers -| inch across. Bracts ovate triangular. 

 Upper sepal ol:)long, laterals obovate obtuse. Petals narrower, all dark 

 purple with a pale yellowish central bar on the sepals. Lip side loljes 

 very low sinuous, hardly distinguished midlobe broader triangular 

 hastate blunt violet tip white, spur nearly straight conic, shorter than 

 the ovary white, callus in the mouth of the spur clublied, septum thin 

 ahnost conqjlete. Column stout white arms obscure. Anther ovate 

 abruptly beaked. Pollinia very small, partly split at Ijack, caudicle 

 very slender disc minute. Capsule oblong, thick J inch long. Sar- 

 canthus Scortechinii, Hook. fll. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 68. Ic. PI. 2138. 



Pahang: Tahan River (Ridley 2347), Kota Glanggi (3357); 

 Perak (Scortechini) ; Penang (Curtis 3210). 



21. S. DENSIFLORUM, Liudl. Gcu. and Sp. Orch. PI. 220. Stem 

 a foot long very stout. Leaves oblong or linear oblong obtuse very 

 unequally bilobed 6 inches long 2 inches wide sheaths an inch long, 

 spike decurved sometimes branched 4-8 inches long, rachis very stout 



